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Data Activator Not Activating
I can confirm that this functionality plainly does not work for me as well. It seems like this functionality is completely broken and I am not sure why people are not talking about it more.
To give more color to it, the value stays exactly the same for me in all of the shown datapoints on the data activator design page for the trigger. But the card that I set the alert on clearly updated to new values a long time ago. I should also say that I am using a directlake connection and that the card is a basic card showing a single sum of integers on a tiny table that I have set up just to test the most basic functionality.
It seems like the thing that is broken is the connection between the data and the alert mechanism.
I similarly had it work a single time, but now it is stuck.
This would have been a killer feature for using the powerbi portion of fabric for my team. Without it, I don't know if it is worth it to adopt this tool in a big way.
I am experiencing the same.
It seems to me that we need to refresh the direct lake semantic model (sounds very unintuitive) in order for Data Activator to detect changes in the direct lake report.
And it only checks the Power BI data once per hour.
I agree, it would have been such a great feature.